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==Holy Archdioceses and Bishoprics==
 
==Holy Archdioceses and Bishoprics==
  
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  |[[Archdiocese of Memphis]]||??||Heliopolis, Cairo - '''Egypt'''||
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  |[[Archdiocese of Carthage]]   ||1st c.|| Tunis            ||'''[[Tunisia]], Algeria, Mauritania, [[Morocco]], Western Sahara'''
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Leontopolis]]||??||Ismailia - '''Egypt'''||''Ismailia, Suez, Zagzik''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Memphis]]   ||4th c.|| Cairo            ||'''Egypt''' (Cairo)
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Pilousion]]||??||Port Said - '''Egypt'''||''Port Said, Mansoura, Damiette, Kantara''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Pelusium]]   ||4th c.|| Port Said         ||'''Egypt''' (Port Said, Dakahlia, Damietta)
 
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  |[[Metropolis of Ptolemais|Archdiocese of Ptolemais]]||??||Minia - '''Egypt'''||''Upper Egypt, Luxor, Aswan, Minia, Fayum, Asiut, Beni Suef''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Leontopolis]]||4th c.|| Ismailia          ||'''Egypt''' (Ismailia, Sharqia, Suez)
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Ermoupolis]]||??||Tanta – '''Egypt'''||
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  |[[Archdiocese of Aksum]]     ||4th c.|| Addis-Abeba      ||'''Ethiopia''', '''[[Djibouti]]''', '''Somalia'''
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Tripolis]]||1866,<br>1959,<br>2004||Tripoli - Libya||''''[[Libya]]''''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Tripoli]]   || 1866 || Tripoli           ||'''[[Libya]]'''
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Carthage]]||1931||Tunis - Tunisia||'''[[Tunisia]], Algeria, Mauritania, [[Morocco]]'''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Ptolemais]] || 1908 || Minya            ||'''Egypt''' (Giza, Minya, Sohag, Asyut, Faiyum, Qena, Beni Suef, Aswan, Luxor, Red Sea, New Valley)
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Cyrene]]||2009||||''Marsa Matrouh in Egypt''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Nubia]]     || 1908 || Khartoum          ||'''Sudan''', '''South Sudan''', '''Eritrea'''
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Khartoum and All Sudan|Archdiocese of Khartoum]]||??||Khartoum - Sudan||'''Sudan'''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Hermopolis]] || 1927 || Tanta            ||'''Egypt''' (Arab-speaking communities)
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Aksum]]||??||Addis-Abeba - Ethiopia||'''Ethiopia, [[Eritrea]], [[Djibouti]], Somalia'''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Johannesburg]]||1927 || Johannesburg      ||'''South Africa''' (Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West)
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Kenya]]||??||Nairobi - Kenya||'''Kenya'''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Nairobi]]   || 1958 || Nairobi           ||'''Kenya'''
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Kampala and All Uganda]]||1959||Kampala - [[Uganda]]||'''Uganda'''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Kinshasa]]   || 1958 || Kinshasa          ||'''Congo''' (Kinshasa, North Kivu, South Kivu, Congo Central, Kwilu, Ituri, South Ubangi, Tshopo, Maniema, Kwango, Upper Uele, Mongala, Mai-Ndombe, Equator, North Ubangi, Tshuapa, Lower Uele)
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Accra]]||1997,<br>2009||Accra - [[Ghana]]||'''Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, [[Sierra Leone]], Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Gambia'''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Cameroon]]   || 1959 || Yaounde          ||'''Cameroon''', '''Chad''', '''Central African Republic''', '''Equatorial Guinea''', '''Saint Thomas and Prince'''
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Nigeria]]||1997,<br>2004||Lagos - Nigeria||'''Nigeria, Niger, Benin, Togo'''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Zimbabwe]]   || 1964 || Harare            ||'''[[Zimbabwe]]''', '''[[Angola]]''', '''[[Mozambique]]'''
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Cameroon]]||??||Yaounde - Cameroon||'''Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea''', Islands of '''St Thomas''' and '''Principe'''
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  |[[Archdiocese of the Cape of Good Hope]]||1968||Cape Town  ||'''South Africa''' (KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Free State, Northern Cape), '''Eswatini''', '''Lesotho'''
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Central Africa]]||??||Kinshasa - Democratic Republic of Congo||'''Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo-Brazaville (Republic of the Congo)'''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Mwanza]]     || 1992 || Mwanza            ||'''Tanzania''' (Mwanza, Mbeya, Kagera, Tabora, Morogoro, Kigoma, Dodoma, Mara, Geita, Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Simiyu, Shinyanga, Manyara, Ruvuma, Singida, Rukwa, Iringa, Njombe, Katavi, Songwe)
 
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  |[[Diocese of Katanga]]||2006,<br>2009||Lubumbasi - Congo||''Katanga Province in the Congo''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Kampala]]   || 1994 || Kampala          ||'''[[Uganda]]'''
 
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  |[[Diocese of Burundi and Rwanda]]||2009||Bujumbura in Burundi||'''Burundi, Rwanda''', ''a great area of the Eastern Congo''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Accra]]     || 1997 || Accra            ||'''Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso'''
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Mwanza]]||??||Bukoba - Tanzania||'''Tanzania'''  
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  |[[Archdiocese of Antananarivo]]||1997 || Antananarivo      ||'''Madagascar''', '''Mayotte''', '''The Comoros''', '''The Mascarenes'''
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Irinoupolis]]||1959||Dar-es-Salaam - Tanzania||'''Tanzania, Seychelle Islands'''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Nigeria]]   || 1997 || Lagos            ||'''Nigeria''', '''Niger''', '''Benin''', '''Togo'''
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Zambia]]||2001,<br>2009||Lusaka - Zambia||'''Zambia, Malawi'''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Irinoupolis]]|| 1999 || Dar es-Salaam    ||'''Tanzania''' (Dar es-Salaam, Tanga, Mtwara, Pwani, Lindi, West Zanzibar, North Pemba, South Pemba, North Zanzibar, South Zanzibar), '''Seychelles'''
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Zimbabwe]]||??||Harare - Zimbabwe||'''Zimbabwe, [[Angola]], Malawi, Botswana'''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Zambia]]     || 2001 || Lusaka            ||'''Zambia''', '''Malawi'''
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of Johannesburg and Pretoria]]||1927||Johannesburg - South Africa||''(The areas from East Africa, the Equator down to the Cape of Good Hope)''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Katanga]]   || 2006 || Lubumbashi        ||'''Congo''' (Upper Katanga, Tanganyika, Upper Lomami, Lualaba)
 
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  |[[Archdiocese of the Cape of Good Hope]]||1968||Cape Town - South Africa||'''Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho''', and the following areas of the Cape (West and East): ''Port Elizabeth, East London, Bloemfontein, Welkom, George, Knysna, Kimberley, Pietermaritzburg, all Natal''
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  |[[Diocese of Mozambique]]     || 2006 || Maputo            ||'''Mozambique'''
 
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  |[[Diocese of Mozambique]]||2006||Maputo - Mozambique||'''Mozambique'''
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  |[[Archdiocese of Burundi]]   || 2009 || Bujumbura        ||'''Burundi''', '''Rwanda'''
 
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  |[[Diocese of Madagascar]]||1997||Antananarivo - Madagascar||'''Madagascar''', Islands of '''Mauritius, Reunion, Comores, Maillot'''
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|[[Archdiocese of Botswana]]  || 2010 || Gabarone          ||'''Botswana''', '''Namibia'''
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|[[Diocese of Brazzaville and Gabon]]||2010||Brazzaville||Congo, Brazzaville, Gabon
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|[[Archdiocese of Brazzaville]]|| 2010 || Brazzaville      ||'''Congo''' (Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, Buenza, Mpumbu, Niadi, Plateau, Kuvete, Likuala, Lekumu, Kwilu, Sangha, West Kuvete), '''Gabon'''
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|[[Archdiocese of Guinea]]    || 2010 || Conakry          ||'''Guinea''', '''Sierra Leone''', '''Liberia''', '''Guinea Bissau''', '''Gambia''', '''Senegal''', '''Cape Verde'''
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|[[Diocese of Kisumu]]        || 2015 || Kisumu            ||'''Kenya''' (Kisumu, Kakamega, Bungoma, Kisii, Homa Bay, Migori, Siaya, Busia, Nyamira, Vihiga)
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  |[[Diocese of Nyeri]]         || 2015 || Nyeri            ||'''Kenya''' (Nyeri, Kiambu, Muranga, Nyandarua, Kirinyaga)
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|[[Diocese of Arusha]]        || 2016 || Arusha            ||'''Tanzania''' (Arusha, Morogoro, Dodoma, Kilimanjaro, Manyara, Singida, Iringa)
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|[[Archdiocese of Kananga]]    || 2018 || Kananga          ||'''Congo''' (Kasai, Central Kasai, Eastern Kasai, Lomami, Sankuru)
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|[[Diocese of Goma]]          || 2018 || Goma              ||'''Congo''' (North Kivu, South Kivu, Maniema)
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|[[Diocese of Gulu]]          || 2018 || Gulu              ||'''Uganda''' (Eastern, Northern)
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|[[Diocese of Kisangani]]     || 2018 || Kisangani        ||'''Congo''' (Tshopo, Ituri, Upper Uele, Lower Uele)
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|[[Diocese of Malawi]]        || 2018 || Malawi            ||'''Malawi'''
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|[[Diocese of Toliara]]        || 2018 || Toliara          ||'''Madagascar''' (Atsimo-Andrefana, Upper Matsiatra, Vatovavy-Fitovinany, Atsimo-Atsinanana, Androy, Amoroni Mania, Anosy, Menabe, Ihorombe)
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|[[Diocese of Bukoba]]        || 2019 || Bukoba            ||'''Tanzania''' (Kagera)
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|[[Diocese of Eldoret]]        || 2019 || Eldoret          ||'''Kenya''' (Uasin Gishu)
 
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Revision as of 01:06, March 18, 2021

The Church of Alexandria is one of the autocephalous Orthodox Churches. Its primate is the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, the successor to the Apostle Mark the Evangelist, who founded the Church of Alexandria in the 1st century. It is one of the five ancient patriarchates of the early Church, called the Pentarchy.

Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa
The Church of Alexandria
Founder(s) Apostle Mark
Autocephaly/Autonomy declared Traditional
Autocephaly/Autonomy recognized Traditional
Current primate Pope Theodoros II
Headquarters Alexandria, Egypt
Primary territory Egypt and Africa
Possessions abroad  ?
Liturgical language(s) Greek, Swahili, English, local languages
Musical tradition Byzantine Chant
Calendar Revised Julian
Population estimate 250,000
Official website Church of Alexandria


History

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt about 332-331 BC he established the city of Alexandria, named after him, from which his Greek-speaking successors, the Ptolemy dynasty, ruled Egypt. Alexandria also had many Greek-speaking Jewish inhabitants, and it was here that the Old Testament scriptures were translated into Greek, the Septuagint version. During the first century BC the city, and Egypt generally passed under Roman rule.

St Mark, a disciple of St Peter evangelised Egypt in the middle of the first century. He probably arrived about AD 40, and met a martyr's death around AD 63. Little is known of the early history of the Church in Alexandria and Egypt, beyond a bare list of names of bishops. By the end of the second century, however, the church had begun to spread among the indigenous population, and the Scriptures and Liturgical texts were being translated into local languages.

Since the schism occurring as a result of the political and Christological controversies at the Council of Chalcedon (451 A.D.), the portion of the Church of Alexandria loyal to Chalcedonian Christology has liturgically been Greek-speaking, the majority of its native (i.e., Coptic) population and their modern descendents becoming a part of the Coptic Orthodox Church (i.e., non-Chalcedonian).

The Church today

In recent years, a considerable missionary effort was enacted by Pope Petros VII. During his seven years as patriarch (1997-2004), he worked tirelessly to spread the Orthodox Christian faith in Arab nations and throughout Africa, raising up native clergy and encouraging the use of local languages in the liturgical life of the Church. Missions spread and thrived in Kenya, Uganda, Madagascar, Cameroon, and elsewhere across the African continent.

Particularly sensitive to the nature of Christian expansion into Muslim countries, His Beatitude worked to promote mutual understanding and respect between Orthodox Christians and Muslims. His efforts were ended as the result of a helicopter crash on September 11, 2004, in the Aegean Sea near Greece, killing him and several other clergy, including Bishop Nektarios of Madagascar, another bishop with a profound missionary vision.

Today, some 300,000 Orthodox Christians comprise the Patriarchate of Alexandria, the highest number since the Roman Empire. The current primate of the Church of Alexandria is His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa.

The Episcopacy

The Holy Synod

Auxiliary Archbishops

Diocesan Bishops

Titular Archbishops

Titular Bishops

Retired Bishops

Holy Archdioceses and Bishoprics

Archdiocese Established See Jurisdiction
Archdiocese of Carthage 1st c. Tunis Tunisia, Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara
Archdiocese of Memphis 4th c. Cairo Egypt (Cairo)
Archdiocese of Pelusium 4th c. Port Said Egypt (Port Said, Dakahlia, Damietta)
Archdiocese of Leontopolis 4th c. Ismailia Egypt (Ismailia, Sharqia, Suez)
Archdiocese of Aksum 4th c. Addis-Abeba Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia
Archdiocese of Tripoli 1866 Tripoli Libya
Archdiocese of Ptolemais 1908 Minya Egypt (Giza, Minya, Sohag, Asyut, Faiyum, Qena, Beni Suef, Aswan, Luxor, Red Sea, New Valley)
Archdiocese of Nubia 1908 Khartoum Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea
Archdiocese of Hermopolis 1927 Tanta Egypt (Arab-speaking communities)
Archdiocese of Johannesburg 1927 Johannesburg South Africa (Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West)
Archdiocese of Nairobi 1958 Nairobi Kenya
Archdiocese of Kinshasa 1958 Kinshasa Congo (Kinshasa, North Kivu, South Kivu, Congo Central, Kwilu, Ituri, South Ubangi, Tshopo, Maniema, Kwango, Upper Uele, Mongala, Mai-Ndombe, Equator, North Ubangi, Tshuapa, Lower Uele)
Archdiocese of Cameroon 1959 Yaounde Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Saint Thomas and Prince
Archdiocese of Zimbabwe 1964 Harare Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique
Archdiocese of the Cape of Good Hope 1968 Cape Town South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Free State, Northern Cape), Eswatini, Lesotho
Archdiocese of Mwanza 1992 Mwanza Tanzania (Mwanza, Mbeya, Kagera, Tabora, Morogoro, Kigoma, Dodoma, Mara, Geita, Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Simiyu, Shinyanga, Manyara, Ruvuma, Singida, Rukwa, Iringa, Njombe, Katavi, Songwe)
Archdiocese of Kampala 1994 Kampala Uganda
Archdiocese of Accra 1997 Accra Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso
Archdiocese of Antananarivo 1997 Antananarivo Madagascar, Mayotte, The Comoros, The Mascarenes
Archdiocese of Nigeria 1997 Lagos Nigeria, Niger, Benin, Togo
Archdiocese of Irinoupolis 1999 Dar es-Salaam Tanzania (Dar es-Salaam, Tanga, Mtwara, Pwani, Lindi, West Zanzibar, North Pemba, South Pemba, North Zanzibar, South Zanzibar), Seychelles
Archdiocese of Zambia 2001 Lusaka Zambia, Malawi
Archdiocese of Katanga 2006 Lubumbashi Congo (Upper Katanga, Tanganyika, Upper Lomami, Lualaba)
Diocese of Mozambique 2006 Maputo Mozambique
Archdiocese of Burundi 2009 Bujumbura Burundi, Rwanda
Archdiocese of Botswana 2010 Gabarone Botswana, Namibia
Archdiocese of Brazzaville 2010 Brazzaville Congo (Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, Buenza, Mpumbu, Niadi, Plateau, Kuvete, Likuala, Lekumu, Kwilu, Sangha, West Kuvete), Gabon
Archdiocese of Guinea 2010 Conakry Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Cape Verde
Diocese of Kisumu 2015 Kisumu Kenya (Kisumu, Kakamega, Bungoma, Kisii, Homa Bay, Migori, Siaya, Busia, Nyamira, Vihiga)
Diocese of Nyeri 2015 Nyeri Kenya (Nyeri, Kiambu, Muranga, Nyandarua, Kirinyaga)
Diocese of Arusha 2016 Arusha Tanzania (Arusha, Morogoro, Dodoma, Kilimanjaro, Manyara, Singida, Iringa)
Archdiocese of Kananga 2018 Kananga Congo (Kasai, Central Kasai, Eastern Kasai, Lomami, Sankuru)
Diocese of Goma 2018 Goma Congo (North Kivu, South Kivu, Maniema)
Diocese of Gulu 2018 Gulu Uganda (Eastern, Northern)
Diocese of Kisangani 2018 Kisangani Congo (Tshopo, Ituri, Upper Uele, Lower Uele)
Diocese of Malawi 2018 Malawi Malawi
Diocese of Toliara 2018 Toliara Madagascar (Atsimo-Andrefana, Upper Matsiatra, Vatovavy-Fitovinany, Atsimo-Atsinanana, Androy, Amoroni Mania, Anosy, Menabe, Ihorombe)
Diocese of Bukoba 2019 Bukoba Tanzania (Kagera)
Diocese of Eldoret 2019 Eldoret Kenya (Uasin Gishu)

See also

External links

Sources


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